Medicine And The Workhouse

Author : Jonathan Reinarz
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580464483
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine and the Workhouse written by Jonathan Reinarz and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Author : Alistair Ritch
Publisher : Rochester Studies in Medical H
ISBN 13 : 1580469752
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sickness in the Workhouse written by Alistair Ritch and published by Rochester Studies in Medical H. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England's New Poor Law (1834) transformed medical care in ways that have long been overlooked, or denigrated, by historians. Sickness in the Workhouse challenges these assumptions through a close examination of two urban workhouses in the west midlands from the passage of the New Poor Law until the outbreak of World War I.By closely analyzing the day-to-day practice of workhouse doctors and nurses, author Alistair Ritch questions the idea that medical care was invariably of poor quality and brought little benefit to patients. Medical staff in the workhouses labored under severe restraints and grappled with the immense health issues facing their patients. Sickness in the Workhouse brings to life this hidden group of workhouse staff and highlights their significance within the local health economy. Among other things, as the author notes, workhouses needed to provide medical care for nonpaupers, such as institutional isolation facilities for those with infectious diseases. This groundbreaking books highlights these doctors and nurses in order to illuminate our understanding of this significant yet little understood area of poor law history.ALISTAIR RITCH was consultant physician in geriatric medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham, and senior clinical lecturer, University of Birmingham, UK, and is currently honorary research fellow, History of Medicine Unit, University of Birmingham, UK.

Author : Joseph Rogers
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joseph Rogers, M.D.: Reminiscences of a Workhouse Medical Officer written by Joseph Rogers and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Rogers, M.D.: Reminiscences of a Workhouse Medical Officer is a memoir by Joseph Rogers. Rogers was an English physician and campaigning medical officer, known for promoting reform in the administration of the British Poor Law.

Author : Michelle Higgs
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473834465
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England written by Michelle Higgs and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “utterly brilliant” and deeply researched guide to the sights, smells, endless wonders, and profound changes of nineteenth century British history (Books Monthly, UK). Step into the past and experience the world of Victorian England, from clothing to cuisine, toilet arrangements to transport—and everything in between. A Visitor’s Guide to Victorian England is “a brilliant guided tour of Charles Dickens’s and other eminent Victorian Englishmen’s England, with insights into where and where not to go, what type of people you’re likely to meet, and what sights and sounds to watch out for . . . Utterly brilliant!” (Books Monthly, UK). Like going back in time, Higgs’s book shows armchair travelers how to find the best seat on an omnibus, fasten a corset, deal with unwanted insects and vermin, get in and out of a vehicle while wearing a crinoline, and avoid catching an infectious disease. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book blends accurate historical details with compelling stories to bring alive the fascinating details of Victorian daily life. It is a must-read for seasoned social history fans, costume drama lovers, history students, and anyone with an interest in the nineteenth century.

Author : Joseph Rogers
Publisher : Echo Library
ISBN 13 : 9781406889956
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reminiscences of a Workhouse Medical Officer written by Joseph Rogers and published by Echo Library. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rogers (1821-89) was an English physician and campaigning medical officer who for 40 years promoted reform in the administration of the Poor Law. After setting up a medical practice in London in 1844 he became a supernumerary medical officer at St. Anne's, Soho in 1855 on the occasion of an outbreak of cholera, and the following year was appointed medical officer to the Strand workhouse. Conditions there were very bad and Rogers had the workhouse master, George Catch, removed. In 1861 he came before the select committee of the House of Commons speaking on the supply of drugs to workhouse infirmaries and his suggestions were adopted. Notably, his evidence was largely responsible for bringing about the Metropolitan Poor Law Act of 1867. However, his zeal for reform resulted in the president of the poor-law board removing him from office in1868, and he suffered similar consequences in 1872 as medical officer of the Westminster Infirmary but in this instance he was reinstated after his suspension. Rogers founded and was for some time president of the Poor Law Medical Officers Association and also helped to establish the Association for the Improvement of the Infirmaries of London Workhouses. His Reminiscences were published posthumously in 1889, the year of his death, edited and with a preface by his younger brother Thorold, an economist, historian and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880-86 and who was recognised as an advocate of social justice.

Author : M. Anne Crowther
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521835488
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Lives in the Age of Surgical Revolution written by M. Anne Crowther and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unusual history of doctors - both male and female - trained in Britain in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Author : E. Hurren
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023035565X
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dying for Victorian Medicine written by E. Hurren and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to provide a detailed analysis of the body-trafficking networks of the dead poor that underpinned the expansion of medical education from Victorian times. With an even-handed approach to the business of anatomy, Hurren uses remarkable case histories which still echo a vibrant body-business on the internet today in a biomedical age.

Author : Louisa Twining
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Letter to the President of the Poor Law Board, on Workhouse Infirmaries written by Louisa Twining and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nadja Durbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781108705202
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Many Mouths written by Nadja Durbach and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1968 Magnus Pyke argued that what "human communities choose to eat is only partly dependent on their physiological requirements, and even less on intellectual reasoning and a knowledge of what these physiological requirements are." Pyke, a nutritional scientist who had worked under the Chief Scientific Advisor to Britain's Ministry of Food during the Second World War, illustrated his point by recounting that in preparing the nation for war, military officials had demanded that land be allocated to grow gherkins. They had insisted, Pyke recalled, that the British soldier "could not fight without a proper supply of pickles to eat with his cold meat." The Ministry of War had apparently been "unmoved to learn from the nutritional experts" that pickles offered little of material value to the diet, as they had almost no calories, vitamins, or minerals. The Ministry of Food, Pyke asserted, nevertheless designated precious agricultural land for gherkin cultivation. For what the human body requires, this former government official conceded, often needs to be subordinate to what "the human being to whom the body belongs" desires.1 This pickle episode exemplifies why a book about government feeding must be more than merely a study of the impact of food science on state policy. The nutritional sciences, which began to emerge in the late eighteenth century and made significant advances from the 1840s,2 established that the nutritive and energy potential of food could be measured, calibrated, and deployed. Food science might have been one of the "engine sciences" that Patrick Carroll positions as central to modern state formation, particularly in the British Isles.3 But if science was integral to modern forms of governance, it must nevertheless be understood not as preceding and dictating state action but rather, as Christopher Hamlin has argued, as "a resource parties appeal to (or make up as they go along) for use wherever authority is needed: to authorize themselves to act, to compete for the public's interest and money, to neutralize real or potential critics."4 That there was "a sharp division" between "theoretical knowledge" of nutrition and "its practical implementation"5 was thus often strategic"--

Author : Simon Fowler
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783831510
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Workhouse written by Simon Fowler and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of those who lived in the shadow of the workhouse'??During the nineteenth century the workhouse cast a shadow over the lives of the poor. The destitute and the desperate sought refuge within its forbidding walls. And it was an ever-present threat if poor families failed to look after themselves properly. As a result a grim mythology has grown up about the horrors of the 'house' and the mistreatment meted out to the innocent pauper. ??In this fully-updated and revised edition of his bestselling book, Simon Fowler takes a fresh look at the workhouse and the people who sought help from it. He looks at how the system of the Poor Law _ of which the workhouse was a key part _ was organised and the men and women who ran the workhouses or were employed to care for the inmates.??But above all this is the moving story of the tens of thousands of children, men, women and the elderly who were forced to endure grim conditions to survive in an unfeeling world.??'A poignant account ... draws powerfully on letters from The National Archives ... [Simon Fowler] brings out the horror, but it is fair-minded to those struggling to be humane within an inhumane system,' The Independent??'A good introduction,' The Guardian.??The history of workhouses and poverty ('misery history') has recently been prominently covered on TV shows like WDYTYA? and ITV's Secrets from the Workhouse, and referenced in historical dramas like The Village and Ripper Street.